10 Jan
2002
10 Jan
'02
3:38 a.m.
"DM" == Dan Mick <dmick@utopia.West.Sun.COM> writes:
DM> Actually, I was semi-proposing that MemberAdaptor was mature
DM> enough to be drop-in-replaced by something that TMDA supplies,
DM> but I can't quite tell if you're disagreeing or not.MemberAdaptor, yes, I think it's mature enough to use!
>> Neat! Are you integrating it with Mailman? I'd love to hear
>> about your results (you may have already posted about it, I'm
>> trying to catch up on the list). It looks like a neat thing to
>> try to marry to Mailman. So is TDMA. Thanks for posting that
>> link Jason.
DM> No, I'm not trying any marriage, nor any realtime lookups,
DM> just using its prewired heuristics (from a .forward file, as I
DM> don't own my mailserver). It's a "look at the message and try
DM> to intuit if it's spam" solution, so it doesn't use any
DM> whitelisting really (well, there's dynamic whitelisting, in
DM> that some of its heuristics are "have I ever noted non-spam
DM> from this address before?")
DM> I love it so far; it's instantly cut my spam to almost nil
DM> (from ~30-40 a day) with very few errors.I lost track, SpamAssassin or TDMA? I read about SA briefly and it looks like you could run it in a client/server arrangement. If the on-the-wire protocol were simple enough, you could probably write a pure-Python client and then integrate that into Mailman's handler pipeline. If it's too complex, you might be able to wrap SA's C API in a Python extension module.
-Barry